"All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh." - Kerouac

"We put our 'Run Hillary Run' bumper-stickers on the FRONT of our cars" -- Rich Lowry

"Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled - Wm. Blake

"most people are other people. their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." oscar wilde, de profundis, 1905.

The PC is the LSD of the '90s. ~ Timothy Leary

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. ~ Roland Barthes, Scorpio

Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them. ~ Rev. Jerry Falwell

" If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams

' Mushrooms springing up everywhere'

You're being engulfed by external and internal factors and facets that suddenly are there everywhere and come right in-- no boundaries, no separative container. The universal life-force carrier and representative, incapable of pulling away from the collective call of life, is intoxicated with it all. Massively taken over by emergent currents and whatever feels vitally important. Impressionable and suggestible with an unbelievable depth and intensity. Absorbing the shock of all that is happening here raw, and impelled to rally people around to bring everybody alive, to make it happen. You ooze conviction and resonance with the basic core spirit in each and all-- three hundred percent all the way.

Inside Degrees: the Chandra Symbols
www.amazon.com/Inside-Deg...078-4187331

. . . your eyelashes go up and down and little
stars come out of you." Karen - age 7

which has completely succeeded in eliminating the return of the light. This is called Tao or the subtle universal law." --Ni, Hua Ching

"Unborn children of the region [are] being asked to pay the highest price, the integrity of their DNA."

- Ross B. Mirkarimi, The Arms Control Research Centre, from his report: ‘The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf Region with Special Reference to Iraq.’ May 1992
www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/V...rmities.html

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USING DU AS A WEAPON IS ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW

"Poison gas in various forms was first used as a weapon in WW I by both sides. It's effects were deadly causing well over 1million total casualties and nearly 100,000 deaths. After the war, the revulsion over their use led to the 1925 Geneva Protocol and other succeeding Geneva Weapons Conventions that specifically outlawed the use of chemical and biological agents in any form for any reason in war. The 1925 Geneva Convention Gas Protocol specifically prohibits the use of poison gas weapons. Although no Geneva Convention or other treaty bans the use of radioactive uranium weapons, including DU weapons, these weapons are, in fact, illegal de facto and de jure when judged by the standard of the Hague Convention of 1907 which prohibits use of any "poison or poisoned weapons." DU weapons in all their forms and uses are radioactive and chemically toxic, and thus clearly fit the definition of poisonous weapons banned under the Hague Convention. The U.S. is a signatory to the Hague and Geneva Conventions (which are binding treaties under international law). In using DU weapons in combat or for any purpose, the U.S. has violated its sacred treaty obligations and is guilty of a war crime. Further, all DU weapons also meet the U.S. federal code definition of "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD) in 2 out of 3 categories:

[The US CODE, TITLE 50, CHAPTER 40, SECTION 2302 defines a Weapon of Mass Destruction as follows: "The term 'weapon of mass destruction' means any weapon or device that is intended, or has the capability, to cause death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people through the release, dissemination, or impact of (A) toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors, (B) a disease organism, or (C) radiation or radioactivity." Because the U.S. is a signatory to the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the U.S. military is violating its own military code. By using depleted uranium (which is clearly a WMD and thus illegal) in combat in 4 wars, the U.S. is clearly guilty of the very crime we claimed our right to go to war against Iraq to prevent.

In addition, under various UN Conventions and Covenants that are binding international law for its signatories, the use of any weapons that cause harm after the battle including away from the battlefield, harm the environment, or kill, wound or cause harm inhumanely are illegal and banned. DU weapons are poisonous under international law and violate all the above conditions. Even the seminal Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is legally non-binding to its signatories, implies a moral duty never to use any weapons as potentially harmful as DU."

DU USED AS WEAPONS - A WILLFUL ACT OF GENOCIDE

"From its use already in 4 wars, the use of DU weapons is an act of insanity as well as possibly the greatest ever crime against humanity (and all other living species) and a war crime. Those responsible include 3 presidents, scores of high government officials and the Pentagon high command to include a lot of generals and admirals. These people are criminals. They're guilty of mass murder without end. They all should be made to answer for their crimes through indictment and trials both in our federal courts and at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague which was established in 2002 to try individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. These people, or at least most of them, are guilty of all three crimes and should pay the highest price for them with no leniency. Their convictions should once and for all serve as a reminder to all future leaders that this type reckless behavior will never again be tolerated. "
www.countercurrents.org/lendma...206.htm

Further Evidence on Relation between Depleted Uranium, Incidence of Malignancies among Children in Basra, Southern Iraq

Dr. Alim Yacoup; Dr. Imad Al-Sa’ doun; Dr. Genan G. Hassan

College of Medicine, Basra University

Information on the incidence of malignancies among children below 15 years of age in Basrah, southern Iraq was updated to include 1999 in addition to the already reported for the period 1990-1998. There has been a 100 % rise in the incidence of various forms of leukemia among children in 1999 compared to 1990 while the reported percentage increase 1997 compared to 1990 for the same forms was 60 %. The corresponding rise for all malignancies among such children in 1999 compared to 1990 was 242 % while the percentage increase in 1997 compared to 1990 was 120 %. The overall incidence rate of all malignancies was 10.1 per 100, 000 of children below 15 years of age compared to 3.98 in 1990 and 7.22 in 1997. During the period from 1993 to 1998 the average annual incidence rate of malignancies among children ranged from 3.1 per 100,000 in Shatt Al-Arab district to 11.8 per 100, 000 in Al-Hartha. In 1999 the reported rates ranged from 5.3 in Abu-Al-khassib to 13.2 in Al-Zubier district with noticeable increase in such rates in all districts in Basra including Basra center, Qurna, Mudaina and shatt-Al-Arab. The findings reported in 1999 provided further epidemiological evidence that the increased incidence of malignancies among children in Basrah is related to exposure to depleted uranium used by the western allies during their aggression on Iraq in 1991.

Epidemiological Trend of Cancer in South of Iraq, for the Period 1976-1999

Dr. Ahmad Hardan; Dr. Abdul-Hafidh Al-KhAzraji

Ministry of Health
www.iacenter.org/depleted/du_iraq.htm

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DU Death Toll Tops 11,000
Nationwide Media Blackout Keeps U.S. Public Ignorant About This Important Story

"The death toll from the highly toxic weapons component known as depleted uranium (DU) has reached 11,000 soldiers and the growing scandal may be the reason behind Anthony Principi’s departure as secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department.
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www.americanfreepress.net/html/...l.html

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Depleted Uranium Dust from US Bombs Worries Iraqis
"Provisional Government Seeks Cleanup; U.S. Downplays Risks"
Published on Monday, November 1, 2004 by the Hartford Courant
www.commondreams.org/headlin...1-01.htm

American Gulfwar Veterans Association
www.gulfwarvets.com/index.html

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"The uterus of the woman on the bed contracted
according to its cellular intelligence...
From the woman's mouth came sound. It was not birth. It was sound, the woodwinds of pain, remote, a noise from another part of the bed.The sound begged the low rafters.The sound begged the darkness. The uterus, which had nothing to do with these things, laced muscular fingers and squeezed downward again. The uterus was full. The passing of intelligence from cell to cell, from month to month, from hour to hour, now communicated with the divinity of growth, and these cells in turn strove in their intellect, knowing completeness in that place, in that instant, ready for freedom."

- from the fictionalized biography of Phillip Ignaz Semmelweis, by Morton Thompson

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